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***THE OFFICIAL GTX480/470 END USER REVIEW THREAD***

RavenXXX2 said:
Hmmm, how come there is no load on the GPU when you're playing games, the clock speeds don't seem to have gone up whilst gaming either....
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He probably alt+tabs out of the game to do the reading but sometimes you you hit into the "refresh cycle" of GPU-Z the 2D clock speeds kick in and are displayed whilst the temperature hasn't dropped yet.
 
cba to see if this is good or bad right now score wise (4 times what my old GTX260-216 got though :eek:) just a base run all on stock (up for work early tomorrow!) but not seeing any game right now which pushes the shaders at all so suspect until/when/if one is coded most PC games in existence right now or due to be in the next 12-18 months will most likely not use all the power of the GTX480 (except for Crytek ;) ). This means heat/noise is a non issue as nothing appears to be pushing it at all apart from synthetic benchmarks like 3DMV. So fan noise is very low or silent depending on the game. Nvdia have a winner here & once more people get these you will see exactly why ;) Games do not even look any different with 8XQ or higher unless you put a microscope on every pixel so TBH anything more than 8XQ is a complete waste @ 1920x1200 IMO.
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Gripen90 said:
Also with newer drivers the cards will mature just like the HD5xxx series which got like a 20% performance boost overall since the very first release drivers.:cool:

Anyhow two evga gtx 470 sc's should arrive friday :)
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I wouldn't expect the same sort of driver based performance increases seen with the five series. Nvidia have a massive driver team and they have been working on the new cards for a unusually long length of time.
ATI on the other hand have a quite a small driver team with the added pressure to meet the Windows 7 launch deadline, and all the problems a new OS and its accompanied middleware bring.
 
jigger said:
I wouldn't expect the same sort of driver based performance increases seen with the five series. Nvidia have a massive driver team and they have been working on the new cards for a unusually long length of time.
ATI on the other hand have a quite a small driver team with the added pressure to meet the Windows 7 launch deadline, and all the problems a new OS and its accompanied middleware bring.
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I've heard that many times before.... But there are always room for improvement. I recall the performance increase from Detonator 14.70 to Detonator 21.82 (well at least from the 14.xx to the 21.xx release) back in the GF3 Ti200/500 days... what a boost, and the vanilla GF3 had been out for almost 6months.
 
Have a mate who bought an Asus 470 for £320, say's if the fan is kept on auto, it will hit 60c+, but if you set the fan manually to like 60, it's as cool as his 8800 card was.
 
Just replaced the stock paste with Artic Silver 5 & temps are already 5-7 C lower under load & idle is about the same but obviously it has some cure time so may improve slightly. Nvidia have put way too much paste on the GPU & Heatsink it was at least 2mm thick and plenty to spare! Cleaned it all off with an Asaka TIM cleaner then applied a thin layer of AS5 with a proper spreader card ;)

The real benefit of this is under heavy load the fans are less likely to spin up beyond the late 70% threshold where you can start to notice it so keeping the GPU cool will assist this plus also have an additional case fan which will suck cool air directly over the GTX480 from the case side so its all good :D
 
AWPC said:
Just replaced the stock paste with Artic Silver 5 & temps are already 5-7 C lower under load & idle is about the same but obviously it has some cure time so may improve slightly. Nvidia have put way too much paste on the GPU & Heatsink it was at least 2mm thick and plenty to spare! Cleaned it all off with an Asaka TIM cleaner then applied a thin layer of AS5 with a proper spreader card ;)

The real benefit of this is under heavy load the fans are less likely to spin up beyond the late 70% threshold where you can start to notice it so keeping the GPU cool will assist this plus also have an additional case fan which will suck cool air directly over the GTX480 from the case side so its all good :D
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I replaced a similar 2mm thick layer of TIMM yesterday with AS MX-3. I can't say that I've seen much difference from stock. Maybe just maybe 1-2 deg cooler.
 
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